摘要：THE Liberator Simón Bolívar, who has been claiined as a forerunner of almost every political movement from social revolutionary to stand-pat traditionalist, has likewise been touled boih as the true founder of Pan Americanism and as the farsighted prophet who first warned Latin Americans to coinbat U.S. imperialism. In realitv, just as his political thought containedelements that today boih right-wingand left-wing ideologues can find congenial, his approach to inter-American relationsexemplifies the ambivalence that has characterized Latin American attitudes toward the United States from the time of independence to the present. And since his words are so often cited— and cited, often as not, out of context—in discussions of United States-Latin American relations, there is much to be said for looking ai exactly whai he did think and do about Latin America’s northern neighbor..
